EVE specified that each ZeBu-Server user can use any of the available resources and have a dedicated host PC with its own PCIe interface for maximum bandwidth and PC computing power.

In addition, multiple host PCs can be connected to the same design to increase the communication bandwidth in transaction-based co-emulation to a maximum of five-million transactions per second.

"This multi-user capability enables engineers to fully utilize hardware-assisted verification throughout the project cycle," commented Lauro Rizzatti, EVE's vice president of worldwide marketing. "ZeBu-Server can be used earlier in the project, on multiple sub-systems, and later used to verify and validate software on the full chip. The high utilization of the system contributes to ZeBu-Server having the lowest cost of ownership in the industry."

Introduced earlier this year, EVE's ZeBu-Server emulator is claimed to support high-capacity designs of up to one-billion ASIC gates. It aims to meet the demands of high-end processors and graphics designs as well as all the SoC verification needs across the entire development cycle, from hardware verification, hardware/software integration to embedded software validation.

EVE's ZeBu-Server is priced from $150,000.